The Archaeology of Mesopotamia: From the Old Stone Age to the Persian Conquest

A very bold title "Archaeology of Mesopotomia", but the author does an excellent job examing Mesopotomia from the twilight of the Neolithic to the Neo-Babylonian period. Seton describes almost every aspect of interest in all the periods of Mesopotamian Archaeology including the written history, perhistoric and historic sites in northern and southern Iraq, The Sumerian Dynasties, Akkad domination over Sumer, The Assyrians,and lastly the Neo-Babylonians. I throughly enjoyed the detail of the book even though the huge degree of coverage that the title suggests is hard to overview in a single volume. A magnificant out-of-print book recommended for anyone interested in Mesopotamian archaeology. A classic!